1st Edition
Sports Media Rights in the Age of Streaming and Platformisation
List of Boxes
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Introduction
Part 1: Change and Continuity in the Sports Media Rights Market
Chapter 1: The Platformisation of Sports Media Rights
Chapter 2: The Sports Media Rights Market: Economics and History
Part 2: The Platformisation of Sports Rights
Chapter 3: Commercial Media Organisations
Chapter 4: Public Service Media Organisations
Chapter 5: Sports Organisations
Part 3: The Regulation of Sports Rights
Chapter 6: Copyright Law and Piracy
Chapter 7: Competition Issues
Chapter 8: Major Events Legislation
Conclusion
Index
Biography
Tom Evens is Associate Professor of Media Industries at Ghent University, Belgium and a senior researcher at imec-mict. He specialises on the political economy of digital media markets. He is the author of The Political Economy of Television Sports Rights (2013, with Petros Iosifidis and Paul Smith) and Platform Power and Policy in Transforming Television Markets (2018, with Karen Donders).
Paul Smith is Associate Professor of Media and Communication at the Leicester Media School, De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom. He has published widely on sports rights, including a previous book (with Petros Iosifidis and Tom Evens): The Political Economy of Television Sports Rights (Palgrave, 2013). He is also author (with Vincent Campbell) of The British Media Industries: An Introduction (Routledge, 2023).
